FAQ

dec-2011

Sales Agent Wanted

NEURAL LABS is planning to expand its international customer base, we are looking for sales agents and distributors for our products to reach new customers in the following countries:

France, Italy, United Kingdom, Greece, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Turkey, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, South Africa and Morocco

We look for experienced and motivated agents with proven commercial network base in the security, parking and ITS(Intelligent Traffic Systems) fields. High technical skills will be appreciated. We offer very attractive sales commissions. We invite interested sales professional to send us applications.

VPAR FAQ

GENERAL

which countries does VPAR recognize.

Check the updated country list here .

what does NeuralLabs need to "train" a new country?

We need 500 sample images. These images have to be taken with a good quality and good resolution in order to make a good training.

(See "Which requirements must the images have in order to be processed properly by VPAR?" below)

Does VPAR read ALL the countries?

Our philosophy to get spectacular results is to localize the engine version for each country.

So we have separate versions depending on the country. These versions can also read number plates from surrounding countries, but it will get almost perfect results with the plates it is trained to read.

In addition we have special versions like "UE version" that reads up to 10 UE countries at the same time with the same confidence.

Does VPAR recognize trucks number plates?

Yes. In addition, if you activate the "trucks parameter" on initialization, the engine will return both number plates (truck and tow) if you are reading from behind.

Does VPAR recognize 2 lines number plates?

YES.In all versions

IMAGE CAPTURE

Does VPAR recognize moving cars?

YES. The speed of the vehicle has to be with the kind of camera, lighting, frame grabber, etc. but not with our engine.

You will have to get a "good image" to send it to our engine. So the engine is hardware independent.

The speed of the vehicle will tell you which hardware to use.

As an example, in high speed situations our customers use progressive scan cameras. (Police cars, highways, etc)

On the other hand, in parking systems where the vehicle usually stops to get a ticket, our customers use normal interlaced cameras.

Which cameras does VPAR support?

VPAR is HARDWARE independent. Because it's a just an engine it only needs one image.

The origin of this image is not important.

The cameras can be interlaced, progressive scan, analogical, IP, etc.

NeuralLabs provides sample programs capturing images from AXIS, JVC, PANASONIC, MOBOTIX,LILIN, IDS-IMAGING, SONY, APPRO, ETC

The engine will process bmp, jpg files or RGB8, RGB24, RGB32 bits buffer directly from the camera.

Which requirements must the images have in order to be processed properly by VPAR?

Images should be as "clear" as possible.
VPAR requires a MINIMUM resolution. Characters of the number plate should have around 25 pixels height.
That means that image size is not important. The only important think is the character height.
Should be avoided, as far as possible, number plate character occlusions because of objects between the camera and the vehicle, strong shadows on the number plate, shine on the number plate.
The images should be taken with the camera as much as possible perpendicular to the plane of the number plate to minimize the effects of distortion in perspective, tilt, etc

DEVELOPMENT

Which programming languages can be used with VPAR?

Any programming language that can use a windows DLL (dynamic link library).

Visual Basic, C++, c# , .net, Borland c++ builder, FoxPro, Delphi, etc.

Does VPAR recognize JPG Files?

Yes. But we must remember that the JPEG format is a format with missing information. This means that it sacrifices image quality (detail) to achieve a higher compression ratio (smaller file). We should try always to use images without JPEG compression. If it is not possible we should try to lower the level of compression to the minimum (i.e. the highest possible quality).

LICENSING

Can I recognize images of several cameras with a single license?

Yes. However, VPAR license (standard or freeflow) must meet your requirements for processed images per second.

Which is the licensing policy?

One license per computer.

SPECIAL VERSIONS

FREEFLOW

What if I need more processing power?

Neural Labs has multi core versions of his products to be used where a a large number of images per second have to be processed (freeflow,radar, police cars, etc).
These versions can use 2 , 4, 8, 16 processor cores.

WEBSERVICES

what if a need to read number plates from a mobile device without processing power?

Neural Labs has Webservices version of out VPAR product that can be used using Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, iOS, etc.

VPAR PLATFORMS

VPAR can be provided for platforms such as Linux, QNX, etc..
This is because the code is entirely in C + + Standard. Thus it is not dependent on any platform and is easily migrable any other operating system as necessary.